Two dolls instead of 30? Toys become the latest symbol of Trump’s business war. world News

New York: President Donald Trump’s tariffs crusade has targeted many foreign goods, from European wine and car parts to films made abroad. Recently, the President’s wandering Ire has found another child of rhetoric: Toy Dolls. Trump claimed that two dolls to children – perhaps it would be fine instead of three or five – 30 if consumer prices increase in American import taxes. The response on social media included memes among them, depicted as Grinch and a young Baron Trump’s child -shaped Mercedes Convertible. “Fully out of touch,” CEO of loyal subjects Jonathan Cathe, whose los angeles produces strawberry shortcakes and rainbow bright dolls in Los Angeles, is written on LinkedIn. “If it is not ‘to eat cakes to eat them’, then it is shot through the echo of history? How toys and dolls have become a martyr metaphor for this fruitless trade war.” The President’s comments also touched a nerve along with the parents, both of them committed an accidental crime, which he obtained that perhaps “two dolls would spend a couple of rupees more” and who admitted their children that they had more toys than they need. In any way, the US Toy industry has rode a lot on the possible desktation of tariff standoffs between the Trump administration and the government in Beijing. About 80% of toys sold in the US come from China. Toy Association, a business group, has advocated immediate recurrence at a 145% tariff rate, which the President has put on Chinese -made products. Some toy companies warns that the chances of lack of leave increases each week under tariff effect. Here the doll is a snapshot of debate and how tariffs are affecting toys: What is the price of American doll market? From Barbie, Bratz and Cabbage Patch Kids to Adora Baby Dolls, American Girl and our generation, Dolls is a big business in America as well as dear sports. According to the market research firm Circana, the doll category, including fabrics, has sold $ 2.7 billion last year and $ 2.7 billion compared to $ 3.4 billion in 2019. Consumers spatted toy and captured themselves during the height of the Kovid epidemic to keep children, but sales were flattened as sales as the economy was confiscated. The younger girls, who are more interested in buying makeup and skincare, have also cooled the doll’s demand, said the main retail advisor to Marshall Cohen, Circle. What are the toy companies doing to navigate tariffs? The country’s largest toy manufacturer, Matal, said that this week it will have to increase prices for some products sold in the US to make up for high costs related to tariffs. The company, whose brands included Barbie and American Girl, said that growth was necessary, even if it was intensifying the expansion of its manufacturing base outside China. Small toy companies are expected to have a harder time compared to Metails and Husband, which makes the child who eat, drink and diaper-alive. Cathe said that he stopped the shipment of loyal subjects from China in April as he could not pay the stratospheric tariff he had done. “No one rans themselves with that cash,” he said. With an inventory of about four months on the hand, Catha said that his ability to secure holiday stock depends on a break in the US-China trade deadlock in the next two weeks as it would take time to resume cargo operations. Sepia, a Missouri company, which was behind Zhu Zhu Pats during the 2009 holiday season, launched a line of 11 -inch fashion dolls called Decora Girls last year. CEO James Russell Horsbi said he was working to move some production, but this step would not be in time to replace planned orders to receive from China. Horsby described himself as a trump pro -Trump and said that he understands the desire of the administration to reduce the business imbalance. “Let’s just get deals and stop all of this because (Trump’s) interrupt Christmas,” he said. What goes into making a doll? Although the American girl launched in 1986 with a line based on fictional historical characters, dolls were never domestic products. They were built in Germany before production, eventually moved to China. Toy experts say that in addition to low cost, Chinese factories have developed technology and expertise that is not easily repeated. Industry Publication Editor James Zahan said, “We have no ability to make rooted doll hair. And then you have found things like face. Some of them have been painted by hand, others are done with a tampo (printing) machine,” James Zahan, Editor-in-editor of industry publishing, toy book, doll-making. Horsby said that Guangzhou and Dongguan, by rooting synthetic hair on the heads of Decora Girls Dolls, are done by skilled workers in factories in China. “It is not just sticking to a machine and does it automatically,” he said. “You need to know what you are doing to make that doll such as it is a complete set of hair when only 60% of the head is full of hair.” Are China’s toys safe? White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said last week that he believes that consumers would prefer to pay more for American-made products. Dolls made in China may have lead paint, he said. Consumer Sentinel Director of American Public Interest Research Group Teresa Murray said the picture is more complex. Murray said that products for children under 12 years of age require third-party testing and certification from the laboratories approved by the US Consumer Products Safety Commission, the agency assigned the task of implementing the lead level in the toy. He said that Fisher-Prius, Mattal, Hussbro and Lego apply to all products sold in American toys by major brands, which have long outsource manufacturing for China, usually in compliance, they said. But the rise of online shopping, including e-commerce platforms, directly ships American consumers from abroad, has given a challenge according to Murray. When the value of less than $ 800, such parcels entered the US duty-free and were not subject to the same investigation as bulk imports, he said. The White House abolished the customs exemption starting from May 2 for low-value parcels generated in the mainland China and Hong Kong. The US customs and border security hope that additional inspection will make it easier to reduce problems. Toy companies and industry experts argue that high tariffs on Chinese imports will entice price-sensitive shopkeepers to search for cheap fake toys that meet high security risks. Can children have a lot of dolls? Many people agree that American consumer culture is out of hand, in large parts, the prices of foreign factory workers keep the prices low, which will earn very little in America 38-year-old Katie Volley-Wigert, Richmond, a senior market in Virginia and parents of a 2-year-old son, agree that there is a lot of materialism, but thinks that parents must decide what is the best for their children. He found the rich Trump’s comments closed. “I think it’s a small approach to whether shopping habits and realities are for those who buy toys for children,” said Walley-Wigert. San Francisco resident Allenor Mac, who did not find an Asian American doll for his daughter Jillian, now 5 years old, said the President’s comment harassed him as some families struggle to buy a doll. The trade war with China “simply makes it even more impossible for those families,” Mac said.